DIY Prison Project

Do not let a jail sentence become a death sentence.

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Our idea is to showcase the work of prisoners whether we publish their work in Evening Street Review or not. To that end we have a committee made up of prisoners headed by
Matthew Mendoza, whose title for his chapbook inspired the name of this project. For privacy reasons, we will not use prison numbers or locations on this page.

When we receive submissions from prisoners, we will consider them for publication in Evening Street Review. If not accepted there, our idea is to pass them on to the committee for comment and possible acceptance for publication on this page.

A former prisoner and successful author, Ace Boggess, has offered to assist with the project.

Prisoners whose work has appeared or will apper in Evening Street Review:

Aaron Parker, 24 61 “Live A Cide”
Ace Boggess, Review 5, 30 “The Poker Players”
Childeric Maxy 31 “Just a Man”
Childeric Maxy 33 “Prison Senses” and “Poet or Prophet”
Dean Scelec, 23 “Dear Life”
Gary Steciuk 25 “Mary’s Cry”
Jacob W Brown 6, 156 “ My Passing Train”
James Doyle, 24 Inside front cover, 166, and back cover, “Are You Kidding?”
James Kunkel “Mile Marker 17” 31
Johnny L Wooten Editorial, 28, 6 “Non-Traditional Morality”
Kadaron Sledge 21, 291 “Tissue”
Kevin Cockman 14, 30 ”Why Prisons Aren’t Correcting Anyone”
Marcello Gibbs 28 ”Isolated from the real World” as facsimile copy on inside front cover of #28
Marcello Gibbs 31 “World Peace”
Matthew Feeney 22, 12 “Sun Shower” and “The Right to Write”
Matthew Feeney 25, 142; 145 “Hateful Stereotypes”; “Pax”
Matthew Feeney 29 “What I long for…” and “My Tree House”
Matthew Mendoza 20, 131 “Short Path to Ecstasy”
Matthew Mendoza 27, 130 “The H in Happiness”
Ryan M Moser 28, 133 “How to Spin Straw into Gold”
Tom Kropp 26, 36 “Ferocious Foxy”

Works accepted by the DIY Prison Project reviewers:

Artem Vaskan “When You Are Locked Up”
Childeric Maxy “TIME MACHINE,” “WRESTLING WITH GOD,” “SADNESS AND ANXIETY,” ” Rose,” “WHEN DOES LOVE BEGINS ?” “JUST A MAN,” and “THE ROSE”
Dan Grote “Barbed Wire, Gun Towers,” “Spare Change,” and “Low Mileage, Fair Prices”
James Doyle “Are You Kidding?”
Marcello Gibbs “World Peace” (A Traditional Villanelle Poem), “Vote or Die,” “Family Roots,” “Mass Incarceration Awareness,” and “Isolated from the real World”
Mark Hartrick “Black Hole”
Matthew Feeney “Society’s Role in Perpetuating Hateful Stereotypes,” “Sandcastles,” “I didn’t try,” “Pax” and “Upon hearing they are trying to Civilly commit me…”
Matthew Feeney “Ninteen,” “Love,” and “My Tree House”
Tom Kropp “Prisoner Playwrights”

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